#Womanhood Quotes

“A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.”

“A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.”

“Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marle?”

“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”

“Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.”

“If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man; some think even greater.”

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”

“The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence”

“To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.”

“What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.”

“A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.”

“I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.”

“I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.”

“Being a woman is hard work.”

“I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.”

“I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.”

“It's in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care, 'Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.”

“The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.”

“Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.”

“One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.”

“I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.”

“A man makes you feel important - makes you glad you are a woman.”